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Level of public vaccination against Covid-19 now depends on residents' willingness to vaccinate - minister 2021-05-05 LETA/TBT Staff RIGA - Mass vaccination against Covid-19 in Latvia has begun, and the level of public vaccination will now depend purely on the will of the population to get vaccinated, Minister of Health Daniels Pavluts (For Development) told Latvian Radio this morning. The Minister emphasized that the provision of vaccines against Covid-19 and the technical side of vaccination in Latvia have finally been straightened out. Vaccination these past holidays compared to other ho...

On Monday Latvia received 79,560 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines RIGA, May 3 (LETA) - On Monday Latvia received 79,560 Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines, which is so far the largest batch of this vaccine received by Latvia, Health Minister Daniels Pavluts (For Development) said in a Twitter post. The vaccines will be distributed among the large vaccination centers, medical institutions and family physicians, said Pavluts. According to the National Health Service data, Latvia so far has used up 100,285 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses, including 77,831 as first doses and 22,454 as second doses. So far, ...

Covid-19 outbreak established at accommodation center for asylum seekers at Mucenieki RIGA, April 29 (LETA) - A Covid-19 outbreak has been established at the accommodation center for asylum seekers in Mucenieki, according to Thursday's government meeting. Jurijs Perevoscikovs, director of the Department of Infectious Disease Risk Analysis and Prevention at the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), said that during the epidemiological investigation, cases of the virus had been detected center in Mucenieki. The epidemiological investigation is ongoing. Health Minister Daniels Pavluts...

Intolerance, homophobia and violence have no place in our society - Karins 2021-04-27 Photo: Saeima RIGA - Intolerance, homophobia and violence have no place in our society, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins (New Unity) said on Monday after the coalition meeting in connection with a recent tragic incident in Tukums. The public needs clarity about what happened in Tukums, the Prime Minister said in response to a question LETA. Asked whether the investigation into the Tukums incident could be carried out centrally at the national level, Maris Mozvillo (KPV LV), head of the Saeima faction of KPV ...

Just over 2,800 people have been vaccinated on the first day of operation of mass vaccination centers, according to the data of the National Health Service (NVD), the LETA newswire reported. Due to the fact that data on vaccinated individuals are not entered immediately at vaccination sites, the number of vaccinated individuals may increase slightly. However, the figure is below some of the daily totals recorded before the opening of the mass vaccination centers. For example on March 31 around 5,000 vaccinations were carried out.  The first vaccine dose was rec...